Harness-saddle cover



(No Mdel.)

E. R. P. HART. HARNESS SADDLE COVER.

No. 535,698. Patented Mar. 12, 1895.

Ni'rnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWIN R. F. HART, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

HARNESS-SADDLE COVER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 535,698, dated March 12, 1895.

Application tiled J une 18,1894. Serial No. 514,870. (No model.)

of the strip from pressure of the Wind.

To all whom it may concern: In ordinary use the cover thus described is o Be it' known that I, EDWIN R. F. HART, a placed upon the saddle before the reins are citizen of the UnitedStates of America, reinserted in the terret-rings, the reins being siding at Chicago,in the conntyof Cook and afterward passed through the terret rings.

5 State of Illinois, have invented certain new The cover being thus adjusted in place the and useful Improvementsin Harness-Saddle saddle is completely protected against storm Covers, of which the following is a speciticaand is kept perfectly dry in the heaviest rain.

. tion. The cover will ordinarily keep its place My invention relates to devices for the prowithout any other fastening than that deio tection of harness from moisture while in use, scribed, especially if the bars, F, F, be made its object being to provide a simple and efheavy enough to serve as weights on the ends 6o fective cover for the pad or saddle of a drivof the strip, D. It is sometimes advisable, ing harness, the cover being adapted to however, to provide other fastenings for the ready attachment or detachment and being ends of the strip, and for this purpose straps,

15 intended to protect the saddle against rain or G, G, may be attached either in the positions snow. shown in full lines, or those shown in dotted The invention is fully described and eX-A lines in Fig. 3. When the straps are in the plained in this specification and shown in the positions shown in full lines they may be fasaccompanying drawings, in whichtened around the tugs of the harness and 2o Figure I is a front elevation 0E a harness when they are in the positions shown in dotsaddle covered with a device embodying my ted lines, they may be buckled around the 7o invention. Fig. 2. is atop plan of the device. back strips or pad straps of the harness. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan thereof, and Fig. t is In either case they serve to hold the ends of a transverse section through the line /t-., the strip securelyin place.

' 25 Fig. 3. It is sometimes necessary to apply the cover In the views, A is the pad of an ordinary to the saddle when the harness is allin place, harness saddle provided with the usual frame as, for instance, in case ot a storm coming up and having the terret-rings, B, B, and checkduring a drive. In such cases it is inconven-` hook, C. ient to withdraw the reins from the terret- 3o D is a strip of oil cloth, rubber-cloth, canrings, and for this purpose it is desirable to vas, or other suitableV water-proof fabric of provide the cover with suitable means for at- 8o such length and width as to form a cover for 'caching it to the terret-rings without passing the saddle with sufficient projection to prothem through the strip, D. Such means are tect it from rain or snow, and D is a second shown in Figs. 3, 4, in which the strips, F, are

35 strip having its ends fastened to the strip, D, not only curved to give the cover a suitable and of such length as to cover the terret-rings arched shape, but are vformed at -their cenand check-hook. The strip, D, is formedwith ters with notches, N, overlapped by springs, S, two symmetrically placed holes, E, E, adapted the springs being adapted to pass through to slip over the terret-rings and with two symthe terret-rings which enter the notches, N.

4o metrically placed openings, E', E', either of When this device is used, the whole cover which is adapted to slip over the check-hook, may evidently beA applied to the terret-rings 9o the two holes, E', E', being provided in order and saddle'without interfering with the reins to make the strip reversible. Stiftening bars, or any other part of the harness.

F, F', preferably curved as shown in section Having now described and explained myin- 45 in Fig. 4 are fastened to the inner or lower vention, what I claim as new, and desire to seface of the strip, D, andhold it in proper pocure by Letters Patent, is 95 sition when in place on the saddle, these bars 1. The combination with the strip, D, being adapted to prevent curling or folding formed substantially as shown and described,

of the transverse stidening bars, F, F', fastened to the strip, the bars, F', F', near the which the bars, F', F', near the middle are middle of the strip being formed with notches, provided with springs, S, S, adapted to en- N, N, and provided with springs, S, S, adapted gage the ferret rings of a harness saddle.

to engage the tenet-rings of a harness saddle, EDWIN R. F. HART. 5 substantially as described. Witnesses:

2. The combination with the strip D, of the CHARLES O. SHERVEY, stiffening bars. F, F', fastened to the strip of A. I. H. EBBESEN. 

